World's Best Press Photographs Of 2010

Some pictures of events from last year

Andrew Biraj, a Reuters photographer based in Bangladesh, has won the 3rd Prize Daily Life Single category with this picture of an overcrowded train approaching a station in Dhaka 

The Eritrean national cycling team passes a camel caravan on the road from Barentu to Keren, by Chris Keulen, of the Netherlands, Panos, pictures for Geo, who won 3rd Prize Stories Sports

Four Somali refugees en route to Yemen sleep in the desert after traveling all night on muddy roads and in pouring rain, Somaliland, in a picture by Ed Ou, Canada, Reportage by Getty Images, who won 1st Prize Stories Contemporary Issues

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Taxis waiting at a railway crossing in Calcutta were taken by Martin Roemers, a Panos Pictures photographer based in the Netherlands, winning him 1st Prize Daily Life Stories category

Whooper Swans at dawn, in Hokkaido, Japan, in a picture taken by Stefano Unterthiner, Italy, for National Geographic magazine, winner of 2nd Prize Stories Nature

The top prize World Press Photo Of The Year was won by Jodi Bieber, of South Africa, Institute for Artist Management for Time magazine, for the portrait of Bibi Aisha, the 18-year-old Afghan woman whose nose was cut off

Olivier Laban-Mattei, France, Agence France-Presse, won 1st Prize Stories General News for this horrific picture of dead bodies at a morgue after the Haiti earthquake

Hindu devotees walking towards the ash-shooting Mount Bromo volcano, in Cemoro Lawang, Java, to make offerings in a picture taken by AFP photographer Christophe Archambault

A sister of Feroz Ahmad, alias Showkat, who was killed by forces, wails as she clings to the bed carrying the body of her brother during his funeral in Pattan, north of Srinagar, India. Altaf Qadri was awarded the 1st prize in the the People in the News singles

Nguyen Thi Ly, 9, who suffers from Agent Orange disabilities in Da Nang, Vietnam, was captured by Ed Kashi, USA, VII Photo Agency, won 2nd Prize Singles Contemporary Issues

A man carrying his catch through the streets of Mogadishu, Somalia. This picture, taken by Omar Feisal, Somalia, for Reuters, won 1st Prize Singles Daily Life

Peter Lakatos, from Hungary, MTI, won 1st Prize Singles Spot News for this picture of a suicide jumper on fire in Budapest

Catapult kid: An anti-government protester uses very basic materials against the authorities in May 2010. Taken by Corentin Fohlen of France, for Fedephoto, it won 2nd Prize Stories Spot News in the 54th annual World Press Photo Contes in Amsterdam

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